It shows operating costs of around $50/ton (or 40 bales) + machinery depreciation...etc at $26/ton.
So basically the costs to harvest hay is $76/ton or $1.50 a bale.
Now we have to tend to the plant itself with seeding and fertilizing. I'm just pulling these numbers out of my head so correct me if you need to (I' m basing this on 2000 bales/year).
I lime around every 5 years thats $26/ton x 2 tons/acre x 50 acresthat ends up costing $.26 /bale
Fertilize once a year and this figure could be wrong but I think I used about $2500 in fertilizer around $1.25 /bale.
Overseeding weedkillers along the fenceline etc..... is variable, but lets say $600 or $.30/bale.
That makes the grand total for one bale of hay to be about $3.31/bale
Now what's a good labor cost. lets see it takes about 16 hours to mow rake bale and load 20 acres of hay (with my ol raggely equipment). This year that was around 300 bales (bad drought year) so lets figure $10/hr labor which is $160/300 bales
All this leaves the total bale price at $3.85
Just for fun, I wanted to figure my labor costs at $5 /bale... Seems I'd be making about $30/hr.
Now before you shoot me, I'm sure I missed something. Its a slow day here at work, so I thought I'd do things off the top of my head.
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